Our fathers water'd with their tearsThis sea of time whereon we sail,...Their voices were in all men's earsWho pass'd within their puissant hail.Still the same ocean round us raves,But we stand mute, and watch the waves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

And even my sense of identity was wrapped in a namelessness often hard to penetrate, as we have just seen I think. And so on for a...ll the other things which made merry with my senses. Yes, even then, when already all was fading, waves and particles, there could be no things but nameless things, no names but thingless names. I say that now, but after all what do I know now about then, now when the icy words hail down upon me, the icy meanings, and the world dies too, foully named.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

And before, with banner red,Through the blizzard snow unseen,...All unharmed by hail of lead,With a step like snow so light,Showered in myriad pearls of snow.Crowned in wreath of roses white,Christ leads onward as they go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Child of the pure unclouded browAnd dreaming eyes of wonder!...Though time be fleet, and I and thouAre half a life asunder,Thy loving smile will surely hailThe love-gift of a fairy-tale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is important to realize that determinism does not imply events occur in spite of our actions. Some events occur because we dete...rmine them. Determinism must not be confused with the doctrine of fatalism, which asserts that future events are entirely beyond our control. "It is all written in the stars," declares the fatalist. "What will be will be." The soldier who behaves recklessly on the battlefield in the face of a hail of bullets while thinking "if my number is on it, no precaution will avert death" is a fatalist. Some Oriental religions contain fatalist overtones, and many people are inclined to lapse into fatalism from time to time, especially as far as major world affairs are concerned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the the land,In England there shall be dear bread--in Ireland, swor...d and brand;And poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand,So, rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand,Of the fine old English Tory days;Hail to the coming time!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »